I have just read the Benz interview with Marca. It's nothing like the headlines. Actually it seems the Marca interviewer was trying to get him to say Deschamps is racist, but Benz did not say that. For sure he is an idiot to have done what he did, but this Marca interview is disgraceful. Not representative of what Benz is actually saying

yeah the headlines made it bigger than it was. i read the whole article, he was foolish for politicizing the situation, and not taking responsibility for his actions. he would have shown maturity if he downplayed the cantona-deschamps issue the reporter pulled. he has had issues on the national team for a long time and deschamps and the ffp have always stood by him. to say they fell under pressure to racists was in poor taste, especially to deschamps who it seems has always supported him (which is something he even mentions in this interview)....but yeah a case of 'gotcha journalism' from marca as usual with that headline.

@Turok_TTZ wrote:Meanwhile some politician says benz should just play for algeria.Guess he isnt half wrong.

Sports, whats wrong with France?

Yeah, I saw it too. Why do these idiot right wingers think it's even remotely okay to say that? Hey, maybe Zidane should have stuck with it and kept trying to play with us. Oh wait, he won France a WC, and got them to a final too.

Don't get me wrong sports. Nasri and Benzema are class A dunceheads. Benzema in particular. As an example to others, pushing coke and blackmailing a teammate is not exactly a good thing to do. He has no place on that team. Ben arfa I'm puzzled with but it's not a big deal.

But these asshole politicans should leave football and Algeria-France politics alone. It's like they just wait until one of us *bleep* up royally, and they hop on our dick. Like yeah, lets just make the current situation worse and perpetuate hatred between the two groups, like there already isn't enough

Not your minister of education it seems. Then again, wih recent terror attacks and hte fact that Benz IS not only algerian and also a MUSLIM dont help. Nothing wrong with two but recent times give rise to idiots to spread agendas.

Not saying Benz is innocent but Cantona and ur Min. Of education do have a point. Why not ben arfa? Whats wrong with him? No scandal wih him to use as an excuse. Yet he dont get called up either.

-One of the people who represents benzema, the one who met with people of Milan AC last summer (DiMarzio goat) was sent to Maroc to pick up 50k-custom confiscated the money on the way-its alleged he got some of it back, anyway Benzema and his people were mad-after a PSG game, Benzema people invited him in a bar to FaceTime Benzema-he went but they couldn't reach Benzema-the guy went outside to smoke and he saw a black van pulling up in front of him. One of Benzema people came from the side and told him to get in the Van. This is person A-since the bar had wide glass windows the scene was witnessed by everyone inside the bar. He panicked, got back inside and managed to avoid getting kidnapped.-benzema was in a hotel in Paris that night and video surveillance has person A meeting with Benzema in the Hall of his hotel room minutes after the botched kidnapping, but no sound of the conversation. They then separated.

The case is mainly against one of benzema's friend and Benzema could be implicated by association although I doubt there are tangibles evidence to condemn him for anything.

Ps: this comes when Benzema separated from his long time agent Djaziri who was trolling DiMarzio this summer about a story which his most likely true. Also there seems to be a recording of Benzema saying he would leave Madrid to only go to City or PSG.

Mediapart reveals that in an audio message sent to De Souza, Benzema accused him to be the author of the leak about Milan and "to stop talking about him". He added that he will only leave Real for his "two clubs of heart: Manchester City and PSG."

Mediapart are usually reliable, but I don't understand why they would print that. Looks like a invasion of privacy for a case where Benzema wasn't even present of when the allegated robbery happened. Also, hard to believe that Benzema had Manchester City in his heart as a kid. A club where they used to be play in Championship or League 1 and didn't become relevent until 2008. Never mind that Benzema has always been consistent about retiring at Real Madrid. No reason for him to take a step down for inferior clubs in world football.

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